Martin Kaymer

The victory, Kaymer’s third on the European Tour, elevated him to 19th in the Official World Golf Rankings. One of the European Tour’s rising stars, Kaymer was named the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year for 2007, then won twice in 2008; the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship and the BMW International Open.

“This is precisely why we wanted Martin on our Tour Staff,” said Chuck Presto, TaylorMade Golf’s senior vice president of sports marketing. “He’s a great competitor who knows how to win. We’re looking forward to helping him reach his full potential as a tour professional.”

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We are proud to announce that Golfbuyitonline are hosting this special event on Friday 4th September (1pm until 6pm) at our Custom Fit Studio at Hensol Golf Academy near Cardiff.

These slots are precious and we are only booking clients who are definitely buying on the day. Once you have been fitted using the latest Custom Fit equipment, the clubs will be made to measure on site on the famous TaylorMade Tour Van for you to take away on the night, or the next morning.

A £100 deposit is required when booking this event to secure your place which is refundable on the day against the cost of your clubs.

If you’re just getting into golf, it’s a good idea to invest in a nice pair of golf shoes. You might think that since you’re just starting out you don’t need to bother with shoes specifically designed for golf, but all the experts will disagree with you. If you’re determined to make a go of it without purchasing golf shoes, at least make sure that you are wearing shoes with a suitable degree of traction. You don’t want to be slipping and sliding around the course. Also, be aware that many golf courses require players to wear golf shoes. Be sure to check the rules at your favourite course before strolling across the fairways in a pair of tennis shoes.

One of the characteristic features of golf shoes are the spikes. Golf shoes have spikes for one obvious reason, traction. Golf doesn’t require the same kind of traction you need in football, baseball, or soccer, but it does have its own specific traction requirements. First of all, you won’t always being playing on a flat surface. You’ll often find yourself on all sorts of slopes and angles. Picture the difficulty of pitching the ball from sloped rough in a slippery pair of shoes. Your feet will be moving around and you’ll end up shanking the ball straight at your partners. That’s why golf shoes have spikes on them. Also, you won’t always be playing on perfectly dry grass. If you have any experience with wet grass you know it can be extremely slippery. Again, this is where the spikes become necessary. It’s of the utmost important that you maintain proper form during your swing, and it’s almost impossible to do that if your feet are sliding around.

When considering the type of shoe and spikes you’ll need, keep in mind the course, or courses, you usually play on. If you normally play on dry, flat courses, then you won’t need quite as much traction as you would if you regularly play uneven courses in moist environments. Regardless of where you play, you’ll want spikes because they’re key in keeping your feet properly placed whether you’re driving the ball or putting.

Golf shoes used to come in a basic old-fashioned sort of style. Many players still prefer these kinds of golf shoes, but they are by no means your only option. Today’s professional golfers often prefer more contemporary looks and golf shoemakers have followed their lead. Modern golf shoes are made from a variety of cutting edge materials designed for maximum performance, comfort, and durability. Many of today’s shoes are not only breathable, but water-resistant, too.

As with any sport, having the proper equipment is of the utmost importance if you want to be successful. After the clubs and the balls, the next most important thing on your golf shopping list should be a good pair of golf shoes.

During the earliest days of golf on the eastern coast of Scotland, most players used ancient apparatus in order to play the game in a more disorganised and informal way. Here, the first clubs and golf balls are made up of wood.

It was on 1618 that the feather golf ball was finally introduced. This was commonly known as the “Featherie”. This feather golf ball was a handcrafted ball made with goose feathers securely pressed into a horse or cowhide sphere. This is being done while the ball is still wet. After drying, the leather shrank and the feathers expanded creating a hardened ball.

But because these kinds of golf balls are specially handcrafted, they usually cost higher than the clubs. In doing so, only a few privileged people could afford to play golf during those times.

Next, came the Guttie golf ball. This prehistoric kind of golf ball was made from the rubber like sap of the Gutta tree that can be found in the tropics. Normally, these Guttie balls can be easily shaped into a sphere when hot and eventually used as a golf ball. With its rubber nature, Guttie balls can be cheaply reproduced and can be easily repaired by reheating and reshaping.

However, between the two earliest forms of golf balls, the feather golf ball was said to travel farther than the gutties. This is due to the smooth surface of the gutties that limits the capacity of the golf ball to cover more distance.

With this new scientific analysis, the developers of golf ball finally came up with balls with the “dimples” that are predominant in modern golf balls nowadays.

Dimples are crafted into golf balls so as to reduce the aerodynamic drag, which will be acting on the ball if it were totally smooth. This is because smooth balls, when sailing through the air, leave a huge pocket of low-pressure air in its stir therefore creating a drag. With the application of drag, the ball slows down.

Hence, by having dimples on golf balls, the pressure differential goes down and the drag force is reduced. These dimples create turbulence in the air surrounding the golf ball. This, in turn, forces the air to clasp the golf ball more closely. By doing so, the air trails the warp created by the ball towards the back instead of flowing past it. This results to a smaller wake and lesser drag.

Dimples also help players to put backspin on a shot making the golf ball break off on the putting green.

The idea of putting dimples on golf balls can be traced back during the gutta percha phase. Coburn Haskell introduced the one-piece rubber cored ball encased in a gutta percha sphere. It was during this time when the players observed how their shots become more and more predictable as their balls turned rough from play.

When William Taylor applied the dimple pattern to a Haskell ball in 1905, golf balls finally took their modern form.

From then on, dimpled golf balls were officially used in every golf tournament. In 1921, the golf balls took its form with standard size and weight.

Today, there is an abundant selection of golf balls to fit different golf game and condition. There are golf balls that offer control, while some offer distance. In whatever ways golf balls vary, only one thing is common and known. Golf balls are not just elements of the sports arena; they are more than ever paradigm of a concept in physics.

TaylorMade

It was the 14th career PGA Tour win for the 48-year old Perry, whose goal is to reach 20. His Traveler’s win was a record-setter for the event at 22-under par that started with an opening-round 61 and finished with a final round 63 to stave off fellow TMaG staffer and R9™ 460 user Paul Goydos.

This is as good a win as I’ve ever had,” Perry said. “On Sunday, my golf was unbelievable. To shoot 22-under par, to break the all-time record of all the great champions that are on this trophy, it’s unbelievable.”

With his R9 460, Kenny ranked 12th in driving distance with an average of 293.1 yards and T20th in driving accuracy at 80.4% of fairways hit. He also ranked T3rd in greens in regulation. *

The victory was his fifth on the PGA Tour in a little more than a year; the most of any player in that time span. It elevated Kenny to No. 1 on the PGA Tour money list, No. 1 on the Fedex points list, No. 3 on the Presidents Cup points list and No. 3 on the Ryder Cup points list.

Perry was one of 38 players who played an R9 driver, 14 of whom used the just-introduced R9 460.

In Perry’s winning bag*:

Driver: TaylorMade R9 460 9.5°
Fairways: TaylorMade Burner 3-wood, Prototype Raylor® 17.5°
Irons: TaylorMade r7 4 – PW
Wedges: TaylorMade rac 54° and 64°

*  PGATour.com
** Darrell Survey model count at Travelers Championship

Dougherty began with four birdies in the opening five holes to pull level with overnight leader Retief Goosen.

Birdies on 13, 14 and 15 established a comfortable lead, but an albatross at the last helped Echenique to a European Tour record 27 on the back nine.

Goosen finished in third while home favourite Bernhard Langer ended ninth.

The third and most high-profile European Tour win of Dougherty’s career had seemed in danger when Echenique sank his approach shot at the par-five last.

The three strokes picked up by the 243-yard three-iron cut Dougherty’s advantage to just one heading onto the 18th tee.

But, after a bogey on the same hole on Saturday, the world number 120 kept his nerve to clinch an emotional win.

The Liverpool-born player paid tribute to those who helped him after the sudden death of his mother in April 2008.

South Africa’s Goosen, who had led over the first three rounds, could not maintain his pace under pressure from the chasing pack.

Dropped shots on the 10th and 12th saw him lose touch just as Dougherty accelerated.

Langer’s hopes of becoming the oldest winner in Tour history in front of his home fans were fuelled by an opening birdie that put him within one shot of the lead.

But he finished level-par for the day as he struggled to reproduce the form that saw him go seven-under on Saturday.

Dougherty’s BMW International Open Winning Golf Bag contained:

Driver - Callaway FT-5 with a neutral 8.5˚head.

Fairway Wood - 15˚ Callaway X 3-wood with an Aldila NV shaft.

Utility - Callaway Tour Authentic Utility Iron with an Aldila Voodoo shaft and a 64˚ wedge.

Irons - Callaway X Forged irons with Rifle Flighted shafts.

Wedges - Callaway X Forged wedges 52˚, 58˚ and a 64˚.

Putter - Odyssey White Hot 6.

Ball - Callaway Tour-i.

Once the field was cut down after two rounds of golf, five Oakley players remained in Ricky Barnes, Azuma Yano, David Duval, Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson.

Ricky Barnes Wore The Following Products:
Eyewear: Oakley White & Black Flak Jacket w/ G30 Black Iridium XLJ Lenses
Belt: Oakley Leather Belt in Nickel

Azuma Yano Wore The Following Products:
Eyewear: Oakley Custom White & Grey Flak Jacket w/ Black Iridium XLJ Lenses

David Duval Wore The Following Product:
Eyewear: Oakley Custom Metallic Red Radar w/ Vented G30 Range Lens

Ian Poulter Wore The Following Product:
Eyewear: Oakley Custom White & White Flak Jacket w/ Positive Red Iridium XLJ Lenses

Henrik Stenson Wore The Following Product:
Eyewear: Oakley Custom Jet Black Radar w/ Vented Black Iridium Range Lens

Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls led the way for Titleist as they were the choice of 140 players. This accounted for 88.1% of the field, more than seventeen times the nearest competitor with eight players; proving that players across all levels of the professional game opt for the matchless performance of the #1 ball in golf when it really counts.

Titleist enjoyed similar success in many of the club categories, proving that Titleist’s clubs meet the needs of the best players throughout the professional ranks. The latest range of drivers, including the Tour proven 909 D2, 909 D3 and 909 DComp helped Titleist top the driver count with 45% of the field. The latest 909 F2 and 909 F3 fairway metals and 909H hybrid also helped Titleist top the fairways and utility categories with 29.1% and 34.8% of the field respectively.

The playability of Titleist irons such as the tour proven AP2 and ZB forged irons saw them as the preferred choice of better players, topping the iron category with 57 players, 35.8 % of the field. Titleist Vokey Design wedges, designed by master craftsman Bob Vokey, also topped their category respectively, accounting for over half of all wedges in play at Dundonald Links. Vokey wedges accounted for 50.8% of the field, more than four times the nearest competitor with 10.7%.

To cap a fine week for Titleist, the winner at Dundonald Links, James Lee, trusted Titleist right through his bag including a Titleist 909 DComp driver, Titleist 906 F2 fairway metal, Titleist AP2 irons, Vokey 200 Series wedges and Scotty Cameron Studio Select Newport 2 putter. Lee claimed a four stroke victory with his three-over par total, 291, and booked his place in the GB & I team for this year’s PGA Cup.

A further win for the #1 ball in golf at Dundonald Links, as well as Titleist topping the count for drivers, fairways, hybrids, irons and wedges proves once again that better players opt for the matchless performance of Titleist.

* IFM Sports Marketing Surveys Glenmuir Club Professional Championship Survey 2009

Glover, who uses Nike Golf Equipment, survived late charges from Phil Mickelson and David Duval to clinch the rain-hit 109th US Open at Bethpage on Monday.

Glover claimed his maiden major by two shots from world number two Mickelson, former world number one Duval and third-round leader Ricky Barnes.  England’s Ross Fisher was close for much of the final round but ended three back for his best major finish.  Tiger Woods threatened but ended four strokes behind Glover at level par.

The event finished on Monday as opposed to Sunday because (as you will have noticed if you were following on the TV) of torrential rain and waterlogging on Thursday and Saturday evening which halted play.  This was the first time a US Open has overrun in regulation play since Larry Nelson won at Oakmont in 1983.

Glover’s Golf Bag contains:

Driver: Nike Sumo 2 Driver 9.5 degrees with x-flex Matrix Red Tour only
3 and 5 woods: Nike Sumo Tour Fairway wood (Tour only model, closest is Nike Sumo 2 Fairway Wood)
Irons: Nike CCI forged Irons
Wedges: Nike SV Tour Wedge
Putter: Tour prototype (Closest is a Scotty Cameron Newport Putter)
Ball: Titleist Pro V1

Callaway Golf

Imagine being able to lock in a lower flighted shaft for windy conditions on one day and then a higher flighted shaft when you want to carry the ball higher and further. We at Golfbuyitonline are privileged that Callaway golf golf have chosen us as one of the first I-mix retailers in the Uk. The i-mix system is available in FT-5 or FT-I heads in different lofts and shot shaping biasses with a HUGE range of shafts in all flexes and are now in stock.

I-MIX: The Driver Re-Invented, So You Can Re-Invent Your Game.

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Callaway I-MIX Technology will change your mid - and your game. Available now at Golfbuyitonline, an authorised Callaway I-MIX Retailer.

How To Order

Simply choose the head style, including loft and bias that you require, then the shaft and flex of your choice. Then call our sales line on on 08444488508 (UK) or 0044 1443222806 (Europe) where one of our dedicated staff will be happy to take your order or help you on any advise you may need in choosing your specification.